Thread: Lahore High Court validates 12-year-old’s marriage ( Now Pregnant )

Looks like the Lahore High Court has decided that it is a tribal jirga after all, certainly against the backdrop of a series of antediluvian interpretations of the law over the past fortnight.

First we had the Lahore High Court mulling over ruling that accepting video evidence in the absence of 4 Male Muslim witnesses in cases of adultery is “Un Islamic”. alternatively here.

Second we had the very same Lahore High Court mulling over ruling that accepting DNA evidence in adultery cases to establish paternity is “Un Islamic”

And now once again the Lahore High Court claims to have struck a blow against the “Un Islamic” and has legally sanctified what in many countries of the world would be termed pedophilia :

LHC validates 12-year-old’s marriage
By Abid Butt

LAHORE: Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Rizvi of the Lahore High Court on Monday validated the marriage of a 12-and-a-half years old girl who had secretly married a man without the consent of her parents.

Zeenat had married Babar Javed of her free will and her parents lodged a Hudood case against the couple. A report placed in the court said that the girl was pregnant. The couple moved the court to quash the first information report.

Justice Rizvi observed that a girl can marry a man of her choice after reaching puberty which, he said, starts with menstruation. He did not accept the prosecutor’s argument that under the law, a girl 16 years old at least, would be regarded as “mature”. He said that under Sharia law, puberty starts with menstruation and Zeenat’s marriage was valid because she had married after menstruation.

He ordered the police to quash the FIR against the couple.

For those curious the husband is 25 years old.